Marine protected area improves yield without disadvantaging fishers

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Kerwath, Sven E ^a,b   Winker, Henning ^b   Götz, Albrecht ^c   Attwood, Colin G ^b  

^a Sca Fisheries Research Institute   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c Environmental Observation Network (SAEON)   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCH PER UNIT EFFORT; CATCH STATISTICS; LARVAL TRANSPORT; MARINE PARK; PERCIFORM; TIME SERIES;

ARTICLE; CHRYSOBLEPHUS LATICEPS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISH; FISHERMAN; FISHERY; HUMAN; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE PROTECTED AREA; NONHUMAN; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

GOUKAMMA MARINE PROTECTED AREA; SOUTH AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FISHERIES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEA BREAM;

EID: 84883145774     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3347     Document Type: Article

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